No Regrets
35-Skydiving
Charlotte’s P.O.V
I smiled at Niall’s words. I could tell that he truly didn’t care that I didn’t have any hair and wasn’t ashamed to be seen with me without it. I thanked him and then shooed him out so I could take a quick shower. I turned the water on hot and enjoyed the stinging sensation it brought me. My shower lasted about three minutes; it is SO much easier to shower with less hair! I dried myself off and wrapped the towel around my body. I put on a little bit of makeup and then went to Niall who was lying in my bed staring at me with eyes wide open when he saw me in just the towel.
“What should I wear?” He shook his head like he was trying to remember how to talk.
“Something casual and comfortable, and bring a pair of sweats to change into.” I nodded and went to look in my closet, wondering why I would need a clothing change. I grabbed some clothes and headed to the bathroom to change. “You know, you don’t have to go to the bathroom to change if you don’t want to…” Niall said with a smirk causing me to laugh and roll my eyes.
“Maybe someday.” I told him and he smiled. I closed the door and changed into a dark blue button up shirt with a peter pan collar, a pair of high-waisted shorts, my white Chuck Taylor converse, and grabbed my vintage pair of Ray-Bans. http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/set?id=79847323 I came out and grabbed a pair of sweats and a purse and headed into the kitchen to be greeted with Niall making smoothies. “Mmm. Smoothies!” I said and he turned around.
“Yup. Your favorite breakfast!” I smiled at the fact that he knew that. He turned around to pour the smoothies when his phone buzzed. He quickly reached for it, read the text and then grinned. “YES!” I raised my eyes at him but he just smiled mischievously and handed me my smoothie.
“All ready to go?” He asked and I nodded. I grabbed my keys and locked up before we walked into the elevator. He reached out and grabbed my hand and I gripped it extremely tightly, I was nervous about what the paps would say and guess when they saw me. Luckily there weren’t any paps outside the lobby and we were able to get in his car and drive away. I didn’t recognize where we were going but I didn’t are. We were having a blast talking and singing and laughing when we pulled into a parking lot. I looked up at the sign and grinned hugely. “SKYDIVE LONDON” was written across a sign in huge lit up letters. I squealed and jumped out of the car. I heard Niall chuckle and his door close.
He caught up with me, grabbed my hand and led me inside. Liam and Lou were sitting in the chairs off to the side of the main desk. They looked up at the sound of us and came to greet us. They looked a little startled to see me without my wig, but they smiled warmly after a second.
“It’s gonna take me a while to get used to that.” Liam joked and I grinned.
“Me too, this is the longest I’ve gone besides sleeping where I haven’t worn the wig!” I said and they all laughed. I couldn’t contain my smile and was practically bouncing with excitement as Niall went over to the desk and was talking with the lady.
“Never been?” Lou asked, nodding at my behavior.
“No but I’ve always wanted too!” I said and they nodded. “Just out of curiosity, why are you two here?” I asked and Lou answered.
“Niall asked us to since we’ve been before.” Lou shrugged and I nodded, makes sense.
“Okay you guys ready?” Niall asked and we followed the receptionist through the building to a room with a TV. We had to watch a video on how to skydive-hand signals, what the procedure is, etc. After an instructor came in and quizzed us. We all aced it and then he led us to go put on the jumpsuits and other gear after I changed into my sweats. “Mind if…” I began asking but Niall finished the sentence for me.
"Picture?” Niall smirked, and I nodded and rolled my eyes. I made sure that the helmet made it look like my hair was pulled back and we asked the instructor to take a picture. We were all in our gear and it looked really good. After that we were loaded into the plane and took off. My leg was bouncing everywhere I was so excited. Everyone just kept staring at laughing and I just stuck my tongue out at them. We finally reached the height needed to jump out and I was hooked up to the instructor, since it was my first time I had to go tandem. Liam and Lou jumped out first and then Niall followed, all going tandem.
When it was finally my turn I could barely control my excitement. I was super scared, but only because I was excited. I took a deep breath and the instructor pushed us out of the plane. I felt a rush of air stinging my face and my stomach was full of butterflies from the freefalling. It was the best experience I’ve ever had. I can’t even begin to explain how amazing it felt. I looked over to see a single instructor with a camera in hand, swerving around us and taking pictures. My smile was a mile wide and I was just so happy. I saw Niall, Lou and Liam farther down below me and grinned. The ground was approaching rapidly but I wasn’t scared. After another 30 seconds of freefalling and gliding through the air I saw the boys parachute pop out. Moments later the instructor told me to pull the lever and parachute popped out, bringing us into a gradual fall. The scenery was absolutely breathtaking; you could see downtown and the suburbs at the same time. I still had a huge smile when we landed and I got up smiling and laughing.
We met the boys back at the skydiving place and they all asked how it was after I changed out of my sweats.
“THAT WAS AMAZING!!” I said as, laughing and grinning amazingly huge. “Thank you so so much!! I can’t even... I can’t even describe!” I said and Lou and Liam laughed as Niall wrapped his arms around me.
“Here is your CD.” The lady at the desk said as she walked over to us and handed us two CD’s. I looked at them with my head tilted.
“They have all the pictures and video of the skydiving.” Niall explained and my face lit up even more. “Hey let’s go, we have to go get ready.” Niall said and we all walked out to the car, and Lou and Liam got in their car and drove away.
“Mind if I tweet that picture of us?” I asked and he nodded.
“Sure! But make sure you tag us!” I nodded and quickly uploaded the picture. The caption was “Just had an absolute BLAST skydiving with @NiallOfficial @Real_Liam_Payne and @Louis_Tomlinson! Best surprise EVER!” I sent out the tweet and put my phone away. After a few songs my phone buzzed and said I had a mention on twitter. I opened it up to see Lou had replied to my tweet.
“@RealCharLottie glad you enjoyed your first time skydiving! Be prepared for much more crazy things to come…J” I laughed and retweeted it. We had a fun time singing and laughing on the way back when we pulled into a park.
“What are we doing here?” I asked as he opened my door for me and we walked over to the middle of the park where the other boys were.
“Hey Jules!” Harry called out once he saw me, glancing at my head and I saw his smile falter.
“What’s up?” I asked as we got closer.
“It’s another surprise.” Niall said and I rolled my eyes with a smirk.
“Course it is!” Zayn and Harry walked over to me.
“How’s the breeze?” Zayn asked, nodding at my head with sad eyes.
“It’s really nice, not itchy anymore!” I smiled and they smiled too. I noticed a van around parked on the road and saw that Niall and Liam were walking towards it. Zayn and Harry motioned for me to follow as they started to head towards it as well. The back doors of the van opened up to reveal a bunch of wires, guitars, mics and amps. I was really confused but kept walking.
“What…” I trailed off as I reached the van. Niall and Liam were already unloading the gear and Zayn, Harry and Lou jumped in and started to help them. By now there were some girls hanging around, pointing and jumping at the sight of the boys.
“Zayn tells us you are a pretty decent singer.” Harry told us as he unloaded an amp.
“Oh did he?” I asked, remembering the times that he had walked in on me singing and complimented it.
“Yes I did! Oh and I also told them you could play guitar…” I glared friendly at Zayn and he just laughed at my expression.
“So, is that what this all is for? You want me to sing and play guitar in the middle of the park?!” I asked in disbelief.
“Not necessarily…” Niall said with a grin.
“We had been planning to do a free concert here tonight and donate any money we make (if any) to Comic Relief.” Liam put in, seeing my confused expression.
“And the fact that you mentioned I can sing and play guitar has what do with this?...” I asked, still slightly confused.
“Well, I saw that one of the things on your bucket list is to sing at a concert. I knew you wouldn’t want to sing at a real concert, and we don’t have any coming up, so we figured you could join us for a few songs.” Niall said and my mouth dropped open.
“Are you serious?!” I asked eyes wide.
“Yup.” Niall replied with an uncertain smile. I went over and hugged him to reassure him.
“I would love to! Now I can cross two things off my list!” I said excitedly. By now there were a bunch of girls hanging around screaming and I saw that there was some security lined up creating a fence around us to keep them at bay.
“Why is she bald? “Is she bald?” “Why doesn’t she have any hair?” “What happened to her?” Was all I heard as I helped the boys continue to unload the van. I kept my head held high and I saw all the boys throwing me worried looks to see how I would react.
“Hey, Zayn, where are Perrie and the other girls?” I asked him and he glanced up at me.
“Um, Perrie is still pretty shaken up. She wanted today by herself to register everything you told her and I expect the other girls are doing the same.” I nodded sadly and asked him another question.
“Why isn’t Niall like that? I expected him to be the worst of the lot but he seems to be taking the news fairly well, I mean I can tell he is still upset, but he hasn’t broken down yet.” Zayn looked up at me sadly.
“I think he’s just trying to be strong for you. I bet when he goes home tonight is when he will really let it out. He doesn’t want you to see how much pain he is in because he knows how bad it will make you feel.” Zayn explained and I nodded in understanding.
“I just hope he doesn’t take it too personally, the fact that I didn’t tell him or the fact that he didn’t notice. He just kept saying he was sorry that he hadn’t been paying close enough attention to realize.” Zayn nodded sadly and I walked away to help Niall and Harry set up the guitars.
After about a half hour of setting up we had managed to create a makeshift stage that sat about three feet off the ground, and had all the mics and guitars set up. By now it was about 4:00 and there was a huge crowd already surrounding the stage and screaming. We were all hanging around in the van messing around and I was practicing gently on the guitar to make sure I had the chords right. I was sitting in between Niall’s straddled legs and every once in a while he would put his arms around me and show me how to do a chord if I was struggling but other than that his hands were holding my waist.
“So what song are you gonna sing for us?” Harry asked and everyone turned to me to hear my response.
“It’s a surprise.” I said and they all groaned. I just smirked and kept strumming and before I knew it we were heading onstage and I sat down on a stool as everyone screamed. The boys sang a few songs and I played guitar and did backup vocals and everyone was looking at me rather impressed.
“Alright everyone, its time for my amazing girlfriend, Charlotte Moren, to take the stage.” Niall said and I blushed at his words as I moved my stool towards center stage as everyone went crazy when Niall called me his girlfriend. As I walked by him he gave my hand a quick squeeze and he smiled a genuine smile at me before sitting down behind me.
“How’s everyone doing tonight?” I asked and the crowd screamed and I smiled. “These boys are pretty amazing right!” I said and they all screamed in agreement. “Okay, I just want to take it down a notch here and I know that you are all wondering why I don’t have any hair.” I heard the crowd’s noise level slowly die down to a whisper and heard all the boys draw in a breath. “For the past few months I have been fighting against Leukemia, and recently lost all my hair from chemo. This is the first time I have been seen without hair and I hope you can all accept me like this.” I glanced back at Niall and saw had tears in his eyes and a sad smile on his face. As I was looking at him I heard the crowd roar in approval, acceptance and shock at my words. I turned back towards the audience and they quieted again as I spoke. “This song kind of inspires me, to someday be the best at whatever it is I do.” I said and I looked down at the guitar and started strumming, losing myself in the music.
I smiled at Niall’s words. I could tell that he truly didn’t care that I didn’t have any hair and wasn’t ashamed to be seen with me without it. I thanked him and then shooed him out so I could take a quick shower. I turned the water on hot and enjoyed the stinging sensation it brought me. My shower lasted about three minutes; it is SO much easier to shower with less hair! I dried myself off and wrapped the towel around my body. I put on a little bit of makeup and then went to Niall who was lying in my bed staring at me with eyes wide open when he saw me in just the towel.
“What should I wear?” He shook his head like he was trying to remember how to talk.
“Something casual and comfortable, and bring a pair of sweats to change into.” I nodded and went to look in my closet, wondering why I would need a clothing change. I grabbed some clothes and headed to the bathroom to change. “You know, you don’t have to go to the bathroom to change if you don’t want to…” Niall said with a smirk causing me to laugh and roll my eyes.
“Maybe someday.” I told him and he smiled. I closed the door and changed into a dark blue button up shirt with a peter pan collar, a pair of high-waisted shorts, my white Chuck Taylor converse, and grabbed my vintage pair of Ray-Bans. http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/set?id=79847323 I came out and grabbed a pair of sweats and a purse and headed into the kitchen to be greeted with Niall making smoothies. “Mmm. Smoothies!” I said and he turned around.
“Yup. Your favorite breakfast!” I smiled at the fact that he knew that. He turned around to pour the smoothies when his phone buzzed. He quickly reached for it, read the text and then grinned. “YES!” I raised my eyes at him but he just smiled mischievously and handed me my smoothie.
“All ready to go?” He asked and I nodded. I grabbed my keys and locked up before we walked into the elevator. He reached out and grabbed my hand and I gripped it extremely tightly, I was nervous about what the paps would say and guess when they saw me. Luckily there weren’t any paps outside the lobby and we were able to get in his car and drive away. I didn’t recognize where we were going but I didn’t are. We were having a blast talking and singing and laughing when we pulled into a parking lot. I looked up at the sign and grinned hugely. “SKYDIVE LONDON” was written across a sign in huge lit up letters. I squealed and jumped out of the car. I heard Niall chuckle and his door close.
He caught up with me, grabbed my hand and led me inside. Liam and Lou were sitting in the chairs off to the side of the main desk. They looked up at the sound of us and came to greet us. They looked a little startled to see me without my wig, but they smiled warmly after a second.
“It’s gonna take me a while to get used to that.” Liam joked and I grinned.
“Me too, this is the longest I’ve gone besides sleeping where I haven’t worn the wig!” I said and they all laughed. I couldn’t contain my smile and was practically bouncing with excitement as Niall went over to the desk and was talking with the lady.
“Never been?” Lou asked, nodding at my behavior.
“No but I’ve always wanted too!” I said and they nodded. “Just out of curiosity, why are you two here?” I asked and Lou answered.
“Niall asked us to since we’ve been before.” Lou shrugged and I nodded, makes sense.
“Okay you guys ready?” Niall asked and we followed the receptionist through the building to a room with a TV. We had to watch a video on how to skydive-hand signals, what the procedure is, etc. After an instructor came in and quizzed us. We all aced it and then he led us to go put on the jumpsuits and other gear after I changed into my sweats. “Mind if…” I began asking but Niall finished the sentence for me.
"Picture?” Niall smirked, and I nodded and rolled my eyes. I made sure that the helmet made it look like my hair was pulled back and we asked the instructor to take a picture. We were all in our gear and it looked really good. After that we were loaded into the plane and took off. My leg was bouncing everywhere I was so excited. Everyone just kept staring at laughing and I just stuck my tongue out at them. We finally reached the height needed to jump out and I was hooked up to the instructor, since it was my first time I had to go tandem. Liam and Lou jumped out first and then Niall followed, all going tandem.
When it was finally my turn I could barely control my excitement. I was super scared, but only because I was excited. I took a deep breath and the instructor pushed us out of the plane. I felt a rush of air stinging my face and my stomach was full of butterflies from the freefalling. It was the best experience I’ve ever had. I can’t even begin to explain how amazing it felt. I looked over to see a single instructor with a camera in hand, swerving around us and taking pictures. My smile was a mile wide and I was just so happy. I saw Niall, Lou and Liam farther down below me and grinned. The ground was approaching rapidly but I wasn’t scared. After another 30 seconds of freefalling and gliding through the air I saw the boys parachute pop out. Moments later the instructor told me to pull the lever and parachute popped out, bringing us into a gradual fall. The scenery was absolutely breathtaking; you could see downtown and the suburbs at the same time. I still had a huge smile when we landed and I got up smiling and laughing.
We met the boys back at the skydiving place and they all asked how it was after I changed out of my sweats.
“THAT WAS AMAZING!!” I said as, laughing and grinning amazingly huge. “Thank you so so much!! I can’t even... I can’t even describe!” I said and Lou and Liam laughed as Niall wrapped his arms around me.
“Here is your CD.” The lady at the desk said as she walked over to us and handed us two CD’s. I looked at them with my head tilted.
“They have all the pictures and video of the skydiving.” Niall explained and my face lit up even more. “Hey let’s go, we have to go get ready.” Niall said and we all walked out to the car, and Lou and Liam got in their car and drove away.
“Mind if I tweet that picture of us?” I asked and he nodded.
“Sure! But make sure you tag us!” I nodded and quickly uploaded the picture. The caption was “Just had an absolute BLAST skydiving with @NiallOfficial @Real_Liam_Payne and @Louis_Tomlinson! Best surprise EVER!” I sent out the tweet and put my phone away. After a few songs my phone buzzed and said I had a mention on twitter. I opened it up to see Lou had replied to my tweet.
“@RealCharLottie glad you enjoyed your first time skydiving! Be prepared for much more crazy things to come…J” I laughed and retweeted it. We had a fun time singing and laughing on the way back when we pulled into a park.
“What are we doing here?” I asked as he opened my door for me and we walked over to the middle of the park where the other boys were.
“Hey Jules!” Harry called out once he saw me, glancing at my head and I saw his smile falter.
“What’s up?” I asked as we got closer.
“It’s another surprise.” Niall said and I rolled my eyes with a smirk.
“Course it is!” Zayn and Harry walked over to me.
“How’s the breeze?” Zayn asked, nodding at my head with sad eyes.
“It’s really nice, not itchy anymore!” I smiled and they smiled too. I noticed a van around parked on the road and saw that Niall and Liam were walking towards it. Zayn and Harry motioned for me to follow as they started to head towards it as well. The back doors of the van opened up to reveal a bunch of wires, guitars, mics and amps. I was really confused but kept walking.
“What…” I trailed off as I reached the van. Niall and Liam were already unloading the gear and Zayn, Harry and Lou jumped in and started to help them. By now there were some girls hanging around, pointing and jumping at the sight of the boys.
“Zayn tells us you are a pretty decent singer.” Harry told us as he unloaded an amp.
“Oh did he?” I asked, remembering the times that he had walked in on me singing and complimented it.
“Yes I did! Oh and I also told them you could play guitar…” I glared friendly at Zayn and he just laughed at my expression.
“So, is that what this all is for? You want me to sing and play guitar in the middle of the park?!” I asked in disbelief.
“Not necessarily…” Niall said with a grin.
“We had been planning to do a free concert here tonight and donate any money we make (if any) to Comic Relief.” Liam put in, seeing my confused expression.
“And the fact that you mentioned I can sing and play guitar has what do with this?...” I asked, still slightly confused.
“Well, I saw that one of the things on your bucket list is to sing at a concert. I knew you wouldn’t want to sing at a real concert, and we don’t have any coming up, so we figured you could join us for a few songs.” Niall said and my mouth dropped open.
“Are you serious?!” I asked eyes wide.
“Yup.” Niall replied with an uncertain smile. I went over and hugged him to reassure him.
“I would love to! Now I can cross two things off my list!” I said excitedly. By now there were a bunch of girls hanging around screaming and I saw that there was some security lined up creating a fence around us to keep them at bay.
“Why is she bald? “Is she bald?” “Why doesn’t she have any hair?” “What happened to her?” Was all I heard as I helped the boys continue to unload the van. I kept my head held high and I saw all the boys throwing me worried looks to see how I would react.
“Hey, Zayn, where are Perrie and the other girls?” I asked him and he glanced up at me.
“Um, Perrie is still pretty shaken up. She wanted today by herself to register everything you told her and I expect the other girls are doing the same.” I nodded sadly and asked him another question.
“Why isn’t Niall like that? I expected him to be the worst of the lot but he seems to be taking the news fairly well, I mean I can tell he is still upset, but he hasn’t broken down yet.” Zayn looked up at me sadly.
“I think he’s just trying to be strong for you. I bet when he goes home tonight is when he will really let it out. He doesn’t want you to see how much pain he is in because he knows how bad it will make you feel.” Zayn explained and I nodded in understanding.
“I just hope he doesn’t take it too personally, the fact that I didn’t tell him or the fact that he didn’t notice. He just kept saying he was sorry that he hadn’t been paying close enough attention to realize.” Zayn nodded sadly and I walked away to help Niall and Harry set up the guitars.
After about a half hour of setting up we had managed to create a makeshift stage that sat about three feet off the ground, and had all the mics and guitars set up. By now it was about 4:00 and there was a huge crowd already surrounding the stage and screaming. We were all hanging around in the van messing around and I was practicing gently on the guitar to make sure I had the chords right. I was sitting in between Niall’s straddled legs and every once in a while he would put his arms around me and show me how to do a chord if I was struggling but other than that his hands were holding my waist.
“So what song are you gonna sing for us?” Harry asked and everyone turned to me to hear my response.
“It’s a surprise.” I said and they all groaned. I just smirked and kept strumming and before I knew it we were heading onstage and I sat down on a stool as everyone screamed. The boys sang a few songs and I played guitar and did backup vocals and everyone was looking at me rather impressed.
“Alright everyone, its time for my amazing girlfriend, Charlotte Moren, to take the stage.” Niall said and I blushed at his words as I moved my stool towards center stage as everyone went crazy when Niall called me his girlfriend. As I walked by him he gave my hand a quick squeeze and he smiled a genuine smile at me before sitting down behind me.
“How’s everyone doing tonight?” I asked and the crowd screamed and I smiled. “These boys are pretty amazing right!” I said and they all screamed in agreement. “Okay, I just want to take it down a notch here and I know that you are all wondering why I don’t have any hair.” I heard the crowd’s noise level slowly die down to a whisper and heard all the boys draw in a breath. “For the past few months I have been fighting against Leukemia, and recently lost all my hair from chemo. This is the first time I have been seen without hair and I hope you can all accept me like this.” I glanced back at Niall and saw had tears in his eyes and a sad smile on his face. As I was looking at him I heard the crowd roar in approval, acceptance and shock at my words. I turned back towards the audience and they quieted again as I spoke. “This song kind of inspires me, to someday be the best at whatever it is I do.” I said and I looked down at the guitar and started strumming, losing myself in the music.
Notes
Thoughts??? SORRY I HAVE BEEN SUCH A LAZY WRITER/UPDATER RECENTLY!! My schedule last week was super hectic and i only had time to write for a few minutes at a time! Hope the chapter is worth the long wait!So... What song do you think she will sing?
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7/21/13